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Immigrants We stepped off the train into one more town briefly without rulers. Only snow. The old consonant-heavy language felt like foam in my mouth. Which road. On the left? No, two rights. My hands flailing in confettied air. You asked about the …
… the colors of your dresses turned against you. The gold key committee in your home town kept changing the rules. …
VQR congratulates the 2023 Winners The Emily Clark Balch Prizes and the Staige D. Blackford Prize were created to honor the best writing to appear in the pages of VQR each year. Past recipients include John Berryman, Philip Caputo, Pauline W. Chen, …
… (June 1, 1779-June 3, 1781). Vol. I was published in 1926; Vol. II, in 1928. H. R. Mcllwaine, General Editor. … John Burk, that “ardent, sanguine and bold genius” who died a duelist’s death, saw fit to assert: “The materials … really, the loss in Burk’s day, or since, is trifling when compared with the gain. In co-ordinating, collating, …
… pry off the garbage can lid; but then the chance may not come again. So instead you notice how distressed her call is … than you’d imagined. The ants are everywhere, of course, coming and going at all the openings; still, you pluck up …
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… for fighting against the system of apartheid. David is uncomfortable, I can tell. Throughout the conversations about … a car accident. Yet there were people like them who, though also steeped in their own circumstances, did break away and … on you,’ ” the interrogator tells me. “ ‘You’re going to die. And the person that’s going to hang you is one of your …